SEANET 2004 Bangkok
Convention

SEANET

The South East Asia Amateur Radio Network (SEANET)
was established in 1964 on 20m (14.320 MHz plus or minus QRM). The objective of
this Net is to promote international understanding and fellowship among hams and
to relay emergency, medical, urgent or priority traffic. This on-the-air meeting
which has taken place without fail daily at 1200 UTC has strengthened unity and
co-operation among Hams around the world, especially those within the region.
The net also provides Hams a facility for testing their equipment and
propagation conditions on the 20m band.

The Convention

The first convention or eyeball QSO of SEAnet took place on the island of
Penang, Malaysia, in December 1971 when about 30 amateurs met. Present at
that historic meeting were the first Net Controller Paddy Gunasekera 4S7PB of
Sri Lanka and stalwarts ‘Big John’ van Leader 9M2IR, 9V1OQ, HS1AIR, Ebbey Lucas
9V1QG of Singapore arid Eshee Razak 9M2FK of Malaysia.